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Comment by partyofseven on May 13, 2020 at 2:58pm

 Hi Ladies,

How has everyone been doing? How are your Sailor's? Mine is still in Florida. Please be safe out there as states start opening up.

Comment by jillybean on March 7, 2020 at 10:12pm

Hi Nicole, my son graduated on a Friday in January. He filled out the guest clearance info over the phone and had to give them to us in person. He had to meet us at the gate. They got their itinerary for graduation day only a few days prior. The Ceremony itself was only 30 minutes. He shipped out the next day for "C" school we got to take him to the airport.

Comment by Nicole on February 29, 2020 at 12:32pm

I keep getting mixed answers about the actual date...I thought it was April 20th his buddy said the 23rd, I thought it was only on Mondays that they graduated

Comment by Tammy⚓️Girl on February 28, 2020 at 8:38pm

Nicole, my son graduated A School last April in San Antonio.  My son was the first class too at the start of 2019.  He would call us on the weekends and spent his free time studying and going to the gym.  Congrats to your son!!

Comment by Nicole on February 26, 2020 at 1:46pm

Hello ladies!! This is my first post in this group. I do not use Facebook so after my son graduated bootcamp Dec 21st 2019 I am kinda lost at what it is he doing. My son kinda fills me in but I am looking forward to seeing him graduate A School in San Antonio this coming April but he isn't sure of an actual date or chain of events!! He was the the first class to start the new year

Comment by IDCmom#1 on January 6, 2020 at 6:22pm

Years have flown by. My son is 4 years from retirement. Ironically, he’s never been assigned to a “real” ship, just a very small one. He figures he’ll spend his last three years on a boat.

He’s had some really interesting deployments but OPSEC prevents me from sharing. The last one does not involve OPSEC as it becomes a public mission as soon as they returned to the States.

He was a member of a team that went to Vietnam for two months, searching for remains of soldiers killed during Vietnam war. It seemed surreal searching for men who would be his dad’s age. It was a real education for him, seeing the country and meeting the people.

I’m a very proud of my son. He’s certainly grown up over the years and is good husband and father. Someday, he’ll be one of those old codgers crowding the commissary aisles, reminiscing about the “good old days”!

Comment by Marcy ~ Corpsman Mom on January 5, 2020 at 1:41am

Happy New Year, corpsman moms!  Some of us have been mothers of corpsmen for years; others are just now entering a world often described as a roller coaster.  As we begin 2020, I hope to see moms connecting, learning, sharing, and making connections and even lifelong friends as I have.  

Comment by IDCmom#1 on June 21, 2019 at 12:49pm

AmyBeth1991, your son wasn’t late to apply for IDC school; he’s too early.  I believe he has to be in 4-5 years before he is eligible  and E4 for Surface IDC and E5 for Sub IDC.   Lowering rank to E4 eligibility happened a couple of years ago, I think.   

The school is 12 months long and so intensive that many students opt to not have family members accompany them.   My son and ex daughter-in-law were in classes six weeks apart so we had our granddaughter while they were in school.  I took her out to visit them half way through.  It was a long and hard year for them.  

Comment by mikes mom on June 21, 2019 at 10:37am

Your right TDM ... Ladies you will make friends for life ... You'll bond with people you may never meet but yet call your bestfriend  ... 

Up to last Tuesday I had been a military mom for over 18 years ... My three children all decided to join (two Navy one Army) ... 

My son was with the 2/2 as well for 5 years ... He joined in 2008 ... if it wasnt for this group and one other and the moms (and a dad) that I met I would have gone crazy for sure ... 

Most of you your journey has just begun ... Enjoy and know these groups are amazing and I'm sure just like myself you will make friends for life ....

Comment by TexasDocMom on June 21, 2019 at 9:40am

Hello! As an admin on this page for longer than I can even believe, I am delighted to see it active again! My son has left the Navy, after 7 years in. He served from basic with the Marine 2/2 out of Camp Lajuene, earned his FMF qualification in 2008 when he was deployed with the 2/2 to Iraq. He, due to his procrastination, bumbled his reenlistment to go to Afghanistan with the 2/2 (which did not make me unhappy, I have to say), then was put in charge of the Methadone Clinic at Camp Lajuene....a real eyeopener for him, and heartbreaking to hear those stories from him about our young troops fighting the battles of addiction after injuries in combat.  He ended up at Camp Bullis in San Antonio, teaching combat medical techniques, only 80 miles from home here in Austin.  And thankfully, he fell in love, decided to leave the military in 2012, entered UTSA and got his degree in business. Very active in young vet groups, UTSA vet groups, etc. He was offered a job by another vet with his same degree at Pulte Homes, worked as a purchasing agent there until offered a great job at another homebuilder. During all this, he and his girlfriend split up (I don't care, I will send her Christmas cards forever for being the basis for that decision to leave the military!) and has since met the love of his life. We'll be having a wedding in August! It'll be in Tennessee, so her NY family and my son's friends from all over the country will be able to attend. I am looking forward to meeting more of his vet friends, I've heard great stories about them (but not many about what they actually did while on deployments) .

I've only met a couple, including a young Marine who came to stay here on his R&R after being injured in that deployment to Afghanistan. My son called to say he was coming in with a friend, and they'd be doing a lot of laying around Barton Springs and talking . His CO had okayed him taking that time to make sure his Marine buddy was adjusting okay. One of those instances when you realize your child has abilities and experience that you never saw coming. Ma Navy was in charge and it's something we have to always remember. 

You're in for the ride of your life, and you will make friends on this board and others who will hang with you forever. There's a crew of us "Navy Moms" that are still close, visit daily on FB and in person as we can. Some still have kids in, some do not. Like our kids, we made bonds during their enlistments with people that gave us support at some of the worst moments in our lives. We have a Gold Star Mom. God Bless her, she just loves hearing what our kids are doing and how they are. 

I'm semi retired, a Navy brat with a dad 30 years in, born on a NAS in Newfoundland, raised in a Navy town. My brother was a Marine. My son thought he'd 'fool" me by enlisting in the Navy, not the Marines, and then volunteering to serve with a Marine battalion. He walked that line of Navy/Marine for most of his military career, considers himself more Marine than Navy, I think. 

If this board is going to be active with you "new" Moms....perhaps one would want to become an admin. We tried to do that a while back, but never heard back from N4M admin themselves. So I haven't let it go, because I did not want the board to close. I also admin a group for Moms with kids in War Zones, thankful that one is very quiet now. Hope it stays that way. 

Let me know if any one wants to be an "admin" and I'll try to get through to them again!

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